Ninth Generation

412. Christian KREIDER was born on 20 Apr 1780. He died on 18 Jan 1856. He was buried in Kreider family plot, Cleona, PA. Christian, Son of Michael the Settler
Christian Kreider was the second son of Michael, who settled at Fairland, and the second child unless the daughter married to Benjamin Moyer were older. Christian was married to Magdalene Stover, born Nov. 19, 1785, and died April 23, 1836. Both are buried in the Kreider cemetery, directly north of Cleona. Whether there was any blood relationship between Christian's wife and his mother we know not. Both were Stovers and likely of Lutheran extraction. The fact that they are buried in the family cemetery, and not at the Hill Church close by, suggests, at least, that the family became Mennonite rather than Lutheran. It might be well to take a preview of the homestead of Christian Kreider now under consideration. We understand that he lived in the house now on the farm of his grandson, Rev. Christian Kreider, and tenanted by Nestor Long, northwest of Cleona. The house was built in 1809; but what suggests that Christian farmed his inheritance before building the house is the fact that the barn was erected six years earlier, in 1803. He had a son born in 1806. The buildings were supplied with water from the old family spring near the present campmeeting grounds of the United Christians, owned by Rev. Christian. But the spring is not on this property, but on the eastern farm, which the ancestor gave to his son Tobias. We have been a little confused about springs. This spring supplies also Cleona with water. The 170 acres, 14 perches which the ancestor gave to his second son, Christian, included, as stated, the greater part of the present farm of Rev. Christian and also of the present Kettering farm, joining on the west, and 9 1/2 acres south of the pike. April 3, 1839, Christian conveyed all of this tract to his son Daniel. This tract at time was bounded as follows: On the east by the land of Tobias Kreider, on the north by the land of George Keller and church land on the northwest by land of Jacob Rupp, on the west by land of Christian Long, and on the south by land of Abraham Long and Tobias Kreider. South of Tobias Kreider was the land of Adam Stoever, and to the east of Tobias was Light land, now the Winters farm, and the Snavely estate. Daniel Kreider divided his land north of the pike between his sons, Rev. Christian, who received the homestead with 84 acres and 45 perches, which constituted the eastern part; and Ezra, who received the western part of 88 acres and 75 perches. But Daniel bought land north of the entire tract, some from the Kellers and some from the church, so that Rev. Christian had 97 acres and Ezra 92. The 9 1/2 acres south of the pike Christian transferred to his son, Michael, who bought to it from the land of his uncle Tobias and from Stoever land, till he had a farm of 150 acres, later known as the Henry farm. Michael thus had 150 acres to his brother Daniel's 170, but some of Daniel's land was well up on the hill, so the two farms may have been about equal in value. Christian lived in the days that the Mennonites in large measure were becoming United Brethren. In this branch of Kreiders there seemed also a special openness toward the "church people"--the Lutheran and Reformed--due perhaps to early marriage with Stoevers. To what church Christian and his wife held we have been unable to learn; but their burial in the family plot leads us to believe they were still Mennonite. The course taken by their children in general leads us to the view that they were rather headed toward the United Brethren. -Francis 1

413. Magdalene STOVER was born on 19 Nov 1785. She died on 23 Apr 1836. Children were:

206	i.	Michael KREIDER.
	ii.	Daniel I KREIDER was born on 21 Jan 1810 in Lancaster County, PA.
	iii.	Mary KREIDER was born on 26 Nov 1811 in Lancaster County, PA.
	iv.	Magdalena KREIDER was born in 1812.
	v.	Hannah KREIDER was born on 16 May 1819 in Lancaster County, PA.
	vi.	John KREIDER was born on 7 Jan 1822 in Lebanon County, PA.